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It appears to be well paid. And as a kid that grew up poor if the choice was 3 weeks of parental non contact or mayonnaise sandwiches for dinner, well see you i
by yardie 8y ago
It appears to be well paid. And as a kid that grew up poor if the choice was 3 weeks of parental non contact or mayonnaise sandwiches for dinner, well see you in a few weeks, mom!
- vertex-four 8y agoThere's a lot of training involved in going offshore, and if you're able to go through training to get out of poverty, there's a hundred other careers to go for that don't involve multiple weeks away from family.
- erikpukinskis 8y agoIs it important for families to be together 7 days a week?
- mbrameld 8y agoThis feel like the setup for a false dichotomy...
- vertex-four 8y agoI don’t see what that has to do with my comment. I’d suggest that it’s difficult to form a connection with someone who is not present in your life for significant periods of time on a regular basis, but of course it’s a sliding scale.
- GordonS 8y agoTo be fair, we lived in an area where oil and gas are the biggest industries, and my dad was a geologist. But still, I wish he'd just been around more.
- watwut 8y agoIt is not so much 3 weeks of non contact one time, but more of "parent is rarely there".
- GordonS 8y agoIt's only well paid when you're away - when you're onshore the pay goes down.